The new New Museum: now with twice the space

New York’s New Museum will unveil an $82 million expansion on 21 March after four years of construction, adding a new 60,000-square-foot building that doubles the museum’s footprint to 120,000 square feet. Designed by OMA partners Shohei Shigematsu and Rem Koolhaas with executive architect Cooper Robertson, the addition is intended to complement the museum’s 2007 Sanaa-designed building and includes a street-visible atrium and an entrance plaza. Permanent commissions include a façade work by Tschabalala Self, an atrium-stair sculpture by Klára Hosnedlová, and a plaza installation by Sarah Lucas, alongside new amenities such as a 74-seat theatre and a restaurant with a menu by Julia Sherman plus a commission by Ian Cheng. The expansion also gives a permanent home to New Inc, founded in 2014, which the museum says has more than 730 alumni who have raised over $28.9 million in the past decade, and the new building is named for trustee and philanthropist Toby Devan Lewis, who donated $20 million to launch the museum’s $125 million capital campaign in 2019.

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